Double-ended filing cabinet



A. ST. 0. EDE.

DOUBLE ENDED FILING CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED MAYIG, 1921.

1,4145% Patented M y 2, 1922.

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A. s1. 0. 05. DOUBLE ENDED FILING CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 16, I921.

1,414,505. Patented May 2, 1922.

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ALLSWORTH .sr. CLAIR nnn, or DUBUQUE, IOWA.

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i Specification of Lcttc rs Pat ent. ;pat tfipi 2 1922 Application filed Mayie', 192 1. 'sriaino. 470,048.

To all whomc't may concern: 7 4 Be 1t known that I, ALLswonTn Sr. CLAIR I Eon, ,acitizen of the United States, residing specification.

,. The object of this invention is to provide a f ling cabmetadapted to house a serles of filing cases so arranged that selected cases may be withdrawn from either end of the cabinet, thereby facilitatingfithe use of the cabinet and enabling two users to simultaneously employ the cabinet and operate the same from oppositesides o f a table, desk, or the like.

In the drawings: Figure. 1 is an end view of the cabinet showing the door liitedand the cases exposed;

Flg. 2 IS a sectional view of the same partially broken away from the center;

F ig. 3 is a perspective detail showing the arrangement of one of the stops for limiting the" initial movement of one of the cases;

Fig. a is a perspective view showing a corner of the cabinet broken away to expose the interior of thecabinet; Fig. 5 is a perspectiveview of one ofthe and V Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the guide rails. l w

i The cabinet is of. box formation, consisting of side walls 10, a top 11, hinged end doors 12,.and a bottom 13; The top and bottom of the'cabinet are provided with a plu rality of upper and lower c'o-operating guide 7 rails 14 extending from .end to end of the cabinet, and the ends15 .ot the guide rails are pointed, as best shown in Fig. 6, to facilitate the entrance of the cases into the cabinet. At each end of the series of lower guide rails, and in transverserelation to the entire series, is located a cross stop 16, as best shown in Fig. 8, which top is provided 7 with an abrupt inner face 1'? and an easy outer facelS for a purpose now to be described, although individual stops .one for each set of guide rails might be employed with equal advantage.

The cases 19 are of double faced formation, each face consisting of a single section having a back plate .20, having connected therewith side walls 21, each having along its outer edge a reversely turned inwardly opening guide channel 22, as shown in Fi 1, each guide channel constituting an cu?- wardly extending reversely bent rim flange 'ught angles tothe contiguous side wall .01 and in a plane parallel to the base plate 20, so that wien two ofthe sections are secured together back to back, as indicated in F 1g. 1, a center channel will be provided which rides upon the guide rail 14. The

channels 22' are designated to receive the hookedends of a series of card holders 23 avhich carr v' the record cards 24, as shown in Fig. 2, -the holders being slidable within the guide rails to permitot an inspection andi'emovalpf the cards as occasion mav ref the ends oipthe guide channels 2:2

quire; are rounded as at 22 to prevent scratching when inuse. If desired, index plates 25 may be secured to theends out the cases, but it these are omitted, the cases may bespaced closer together and grasped for removal by engagement of the thumb and fingers with the end connecting strip 26 which overlies the contiguous edges of the abutting base plates. 7 It w ll be noted from Fig. 1 that the upper guide rails 14 are positioned to aiford a clearance X above each of the cases, so as to' permit the latter to be slightly lifted, which htting 1s necessary: in order to permit the proxlmate end of a selected case to clear the abrupt face of the adjacent cross step, after whichthe case may be removed for inspection. Since the formation is uniform in each end of the cabinet, a case can be re- 1 the. parts canbe constructed in whole or in part from Wood, it so desired, wlthout substantial departure from the main features of the'pre'sent invention.

I claim: 1. In filing devices, the combination of a cabinet provided with a series of longitudinally extending guide rails, and a cross stop at each end of the cabinet, provided with an abrupt inner face and an easy outer face,

and adapted to permit a selected case to be lifted above the abrupt face and drawn over th stop and removed from the near end of the case, and adapted topresentits abrupt tially as described;

face to stop the movement of a case inserted 1 from. the opposite. end of the cabinet, subc each edge with a channel embracing the proximate guide rail, the case belng formed fstantially as described; j 1

- 2. In fil ng cabinets, the combination. of a cabinet, an. upper and a lower guide rail withinthefcabinet 1n spaced l'elatlon wlth one another,,a double faced filing case .slid

able between the guide rails and provided in of two sections of sheet metal secured together backto back, and each having sides extending at an angle to the back, and havlng the marginal edges of the sides outwardly" and reversely turnedto furnish card holder guides, the combined formation furnishingcalong each edge of the case the channel whichembraces the adjacent guide rail," and cardholders slidably mounted within the cardholder In filing devices, the, combination of a cabinet provided with spaced longitudinally 'j extending guiderails, a case slidable upon the guide rails "for removal at either end of the cabinet,'a'sto1 at each end of the cabinet,

channels, substanprovided with an abrupt inner face and an easy outer face, the stops standing in opposed relation toeach otherand adapted to permit thewithdrawal of the case'by lifting the same above the adjacent stop and each adapted to present its abrupt face to liinitrthe free inward movement of the case from the opposite side ofthe cabinet, substantiallyas described. I

4t. Infihng devices, the combination of cabinet, an upper and a lower guide Irail Y i within the cabinet in spaced relation to one two sections of sheet metal-securedtogethefj back "to back and each having sidesextendingat an angle to the back and having the marginal edges of the sidesoutwardly turned 7 1 to furnish along each edge ofthe ease the channel which embraces the adjacent side rail; and card holders mounted within the case on opposite sides thereof; substantially as described.

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